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41 " Catch me if you can. "
― V.E. Schwab , Vengeful (Villains, #2)
42 " Marcella hated small talk, but that was because so often it felt like a chore. Just noise, empty words meant to fill empty space. "
43 " She met his eyes. Those eyes that after everything still felt like family, like safety, like home. "
44 " In Dom’s head, Victor went around acting like the world was one big game of chess. Tapping people and saying, “You’re a pawn, you’re a knight, you’re a rook. "
45 " Was it madness, to believe? Or arrogance, to not? "
46 " Some people were matches, a bit of light and no heat. And others were furnaces, all heat but little light. And then, once in a blue moon, there was a bonfire, something so hot and bright you couldn't stand too near without burning.Marcella was a bonfire if ever June saw one.Of course, even bonfires eventually went out, smothered by their own ashes. "
47 " And by the time I’m thirty,” she’d said, “everyone I know will be dead. Except for Eli. "
48 " I saw became I think I saw became I couldn’t have seen became I didn’t see. Eyes were fickle. Minds were weak. "
49 " What is it with men and places like this? I swear, you always pick the most morose places to gather. "
50 " Small talk was an art form, one of those things that made people’s eyes gloss over. Go silent, and they might start wondering why. But keep them talking about nothing at all, and they wouldn’t even blink. "
51 " Attachment was a vexing thing, as pernicious as weeds. "
52 " I’m not a fucking coat, Marcus. You don’t get to check me at the door. "
53 " He doesn’t know how patient you are,” he said. “Doesn’t know you like I do.” Eli cleaned the blood from his hand. “No,” he said softly. “No one ever has. "
54 " How quickly we devolve. People become animals the moment they are caged. "
55 " Lying was a skill made easy by habit. "
56 " They say people grow on you, and maybe that was true, because every time Marcella saw Tony, she felt the need to scrub him off her skin. "
57 " You can live in the heavens. I’ll take the earthly sphere. "
58 " Gods [were] crucified before they were worshipped. "
59 " Since you have a knack for finding people—” “I have a knack for killing people,” corrected June. “Finding them is simply a prerequisite. "
60 " His eyes met Victor’s, and for a second neither man moved. Run, thought Victor, and he could see the response in Eli’s coiled frame. Chase me. "